\n\tBOSTON: Verizon has launched FiOS Custom TV, which offers customers a base channel package and allows them to opt in for the additional ones they want to pay to receive.<\/p>\n
\n\tDubbed Verizon FiOS Custom TV, the offering is an industry first, changing the way that people buy cable. Each FiOS Custom TV subscriber will have a base package for $55 per month that includes channels such as CNN, HGTV, AMC and Food Network. Customers can select two of seven genre-specific packages—News & Info, Sports, Sports Plus, Kids, Pop Culture, Lifestyle and Entertainment—that include 10 to 17 additional channels as part of the $55 monthly charge. Customers can then add channel packages for $10 a month and change their selections after 30 days.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe move has already come under fire. ESPN has expressed concern that new television packages being offered by Verizon do not comply with its existing agreements. ESPN said in a statement that Verizon's new packages "would not be authorized by our existing agreements." It added that "our contracts clearly provide that neither ESPN nor ESPN2 may be distributed in a separate sports package."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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